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  3. July 2003

Re: A date field with someone's name in it?

No, you can get almost any kind of value into any type of field.

Scott Mildenberger

--- Booth Martin <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  
>  
> This just cost me a cheeseburger.  I was flabbergasted to see,
> in debug, a
> field defined in the D specs as a date field, with a value of
> "Santa Claus".
> 
> For some silly reason I had assumed that  a D field would only
> have valid
> dates in it.  
> 
> Is anyone else as surprised as I was?
> 



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